The story of Billy Shears

We know when Billy Shears first appeared on the scene. It was the 1st June 1967, the day on which the Beatles released their much anticipated masterwork album, “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”. Billy’s name is there at the end of the very first song…

“I don’t really want to stop the show
But I thought that you might like to know
That the singer’s going to sing a song
And he wants you all to sing along
So let me introduce to you
The one and only Billy Shears
And Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”

And then Ringo Starr starts to sing…

Although the album was based around an adopted identity the Beatles performing as “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” the idea that Ringo Starr might masquerading as Billy Shears was too much for some fans, particularly those living in America, the home of the conspiracy theory. They saw the ‘Sgt Pepper’ album as yet more proof of the on-going speculation that Paul McCartney had been killed in a car crash on Wednesday, November 9th 1966 and replaced with a look-a-like, sound-a-like called William Campbell Shears a.k.a Billy Shears born in Shreveport, Louisiana on September 16th, 1940.

FACT Paul McCartney did have a minor accident on 26th Dec 1965 when he fell off a moped, split his lip and chipped a tooth. Embarrassed by his ‘fat lip’ he began to grow a moustache.

The Billy Shears story goes that in 1965 William Campbell Shears entered and won a Beatle ‘Look-a-Like’ competition organised by Brian Epstein who was looking for Beatle doubles just in case one of his boys got killed. No winners were ever announced for this competition. After Paul was ‘killed’ in 1966 Brian Epstein is said to have bribed police and journalists to keep the accident under wraps. He then persuaded the remaining Beatles to stay together and accept William Campbell Shears as a replacement. Of course William Campbell Shears was as equally talented, charming and witty as the original Paul… and although he was an American he quickly assumed Paul’s distinctive Liverpool accent!. With a little plastic surgery he also assumed Paul’s baby faced good looks. According to the ‘Paul is Dead’ theorists Paul’s death explains why the band stopped touring in 1966, and started growing beards!

The conspirators went to enormous lengths trying to prove their point. According to them there is a secret phone number hidden in the stars making up the title on the sleeve of the “Magical Mystery Tour” album. Ring it and you will hear a true account of Paul’s death. The photograph of the Beatles on the zebra crossing on the sleeve of Abbey Road is meant to represent a funeral procession. The fact that Paul (i.e William Campbell Shears) is barefooted confirms it! The white VW Beetle in the background with the number plate ‘28 IF’ suggests that Paul would have been 28 years old - IF he had survived. The so called ‘clues’ go on and on. Backward messages hidden on records, unusual photographs, the OPD badge that ‘Paul’ is wearing on the fancy blue uniform that he is wearing on the ‘Sgt Pepper’ sleeve being official police slang for “Officially Pronounced Dead”, the first line of “She’s Leaving Home” - “Wednesday morning at 5 o’clock as the day begins” as printed on the Sgt Pepper sleeve being a direct reference to the time of Paul’s death on Wednesday 9th November 1966.

FACT The badge that Paul is wearing on his fancy blue uniform on the album sleeve of ‘Sgt Pepper’ actually reads O.P.P, one of four given to the Beatles by the Toronto ‘Ontario Provincial Police’ on 28th September 1964

On and on the falsehoods go. Take a mirror and lay it horizontally across the middle of the drum skin on the artwork on the front cover of the Sgt Pepper sleeve and it reads…

I ONE IX HE DIE

….a clear reference in theorists minds to the dates of Paul’s death in Roman numerals I ONE = 11 (i.e November) and IX = 9.

The final clues came with the Beatles last album ‘Let It Be’. The sleeve is black - an appropriate colour for a funeral card. Whereas all the other Beatles are facing to one side Paul (i.e Billy Shears) is looking directly at the viewer against a blood red background. Spooky!

In many ways the identity of Billy Shears is clear enough. Right from the beginning of “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” it is obvious that the Beatles are pretending to be other people - “We’re Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” they sing. Then Paul McCartney introduces the singer coming up on the next song… “So let me introduce to you the one and only Billy Shears” and Ringo starts to sing.

In 1977 John Lennon wrote a song for Ringo and recorded it with him. It is called “I’m the Greatest”. During the song Ringo, for the benefit of the numbnuts out there, confirms the true identity of Billy Shears. Listen carefully…

You can find more information about the “Paul is Dead” conspiracy in “The Great Beatle Death Clues” by R. Gary Patterson published by Robson Books.

– from Martyn Day

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Comments

Backwards masking and all the other recording tricks were probably done in case they were exposed.All they would have to say is that if it were a true fraud it would have been stupid to expose themselves. Dual misdirection at its finest. Trying to prove or disprove anything from these albums is a waste of time. DNA and fingerprints do nor lie. Fail once spent over a week in a Japanese jail as his fingerprints did not match the true Paul's prints. Ringo exposed the scam a few years ago but since then has appeared in several interviews with Fail. No mention of the hoax in any of these later interviews. Why? If Ringo had feared the non disclosure agreement he never would have stepped forward at all. Much money would change hands if true family members could inherit what Faul has taken as his own. Not to mention he would be charged with fraud ad well as all the other Beatles and employees, family members and friends as well.as well. If M15 is actually involved in the switch they could stop the criminal charges in Britain but in the US and the rest of the world they could be open to those charges plus many others. Think of the millions of royalties being given to an imposter. The Beatles never played live again nor come to US for awhile. Did they see no way around Fail playing his bass with the wrong hand? Were they afraid he would be arrested or have an accident that might expose his false fingerprints, blood or DNA. The anger of the public if he were exposed today is another reason they keep the ruse going. Watch later interviews with Fail and other Beatles members. They all seem to be put off or angry when he refers to himself as McCarthy or speaks of the old times when it was the actual Paul. Faul was to only be a substitute for a week or two, they resent his keeping the ruse going on for 50 years. They have had to keep the fraud covered while Faul reaped the benefits of the fraud. Faul is protected by powerful people and money or he would have been exposed years ago.

Dennis Garris on 2017-10-13 20:22:37 +0000

John wrote "I'm the Greatest" 1970 Ringo recorded it for his album RINGOin 1973 (his best album according to me) Both John & George appearing on the track.

Lennart B on 2017-10-19 18:51:58 +0000

If Billy Shears legally but silently changed his name to Paul Mccartney years ago it wouldn't be considered fraudulent would it? Legally speaking...

Julie Nickel on 2017-12-07 09:22:33 +0000

Was he on a "moped", or a SCOOTER? Scooters are NOT ^&#@!ing mopeds.

Bradley Greenwood on 2018-01-21 15:04:44 +0000

The original Paul was reconstituted from his cryogenically stored parts (possible co-mingled with Ted Williams) in 2002 and was one of the (CIA funded) terrorists who piloted the second plane on 9/11. Duh.

Normal Human on 2018-02-22 05:50:45 +0000

Anyone who can't see (or simply refuses to see) the fact that the "Paul McCartney" of Sgt. Pepper onward is not the same Paul McCartney pre-Winter of 1966. You should read the expose in Italian Wired Magazine where scientists proved beyond a shadow of a doubt with facial recognition software that there are/were two Beatles who went by the name Paul McCartney.

"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt." --- Stuart Smalley

Human who is not blind on 2018-03-13 04:50:07 +0000

It doesn't matter if it was fraudulent or not when you have some of the most powerful people behind the scenes pulling the strings.

McHenko on 2018-03-30 16:27:42 +0000

I know for a fact that Paul died. He was reincarnated as a hamster which I owned as a schoolboy. He told me (as a hamster, of course.)

Slim on 2018-04-02 17:33:04 +0000

No matter what the truth is, it doesn't really matter if they're wrong, they're right, where they belong. They were, are and will always be the greatest, most talented band that ever was or will be.

white dove on 2018-04-25 02:58:32 +0000

The take away from the story :Americains are crazy

Soumia on 2018-05-04 18:43:49 +0000

The original Beatle Paul Was most certainly replaced. If you watch the videos of them both playing you will see thatPaul knew the Bass and rarely ever looked at the fretboard in stark contrast to Faul. Of course anyone with two good eyes should be able to tell theyâre not the same people Sargent Peppers Is quite a departure musically and full of Luminati influences. Money is power. I believe that had no choice in keeping up the charade, like it or not. Another distorted part of history.

David on 2018-05-07 23:16:21 +0000

Whoever really believes that crazy crap is a moronic fool. Just saying. ..

T on 2018-06-06 06:58:13 +0000

It seems that someone as talented and no doubt popular as Billy Shears, might have been missed by friends and family, but he just said " Fuck em all. I'm a Beatle Now; and to think that to this day his nuts are still in a vice. Maybe the trip to India and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi made him a believer.

Peter on 2018-06-18 20:45:00 +0000

They are two different people. There are so many differences between the two.

APJ on 2018-06-26 08:39:24 +0000

They are two different people fact, the dna proves it.....why do you think Heather Mills is banned from ever telling the truth? he suddenly paid her off when she threatened to reveal the truth. I work in the music industry and have played with Billy many times over the years and he sometimes slips up with his accent. Ok there has been fraud committed but Billy is actually a much more talented writer than Paul ever was. Makes you wonder who Linda thought she was married to.

Erik Draven (the real one) on 2018-07-05 21:23:10 +0000

Nonsense. No one's looks stay the same. His voice was forensically studied and like a fingerprint, it proves the voices to be of the same person. Paul is still alive, but very old now. When i was in my twenties and in the military, my heighth changed and my facial features changed. Everybody is different. Plastic surgery was in it's infancy stage in 1966. To make William Shears Campbell look like Paul McCartney then was impossible. Look at live concert videos in 1966 and you can see Paul was already changing from his pudgy round face to a more mature slender version. The Beatles were and still are, the greatest Rock n Roll band ever assembled.

Bill Hammond on 2018-07-19 18:01:13 +0000

I love this conspiracy. There are so many questions and co-incidences, etc. The truth of the matter is, nobody really gives a damn. Maybe in '66 and a year or three but now, No.

"In case they were exposed...they could be open to those charges..." they put clues everywhere?

Michael Parker on 2018-07-30 20:30:37 +0000

Anyone that truly believes this is easily led, there is no proof that cannot be explained logically, little hidden messages on an album isn't proof someone has died, the Japanese test that said it's not the same person well we all know face recognition isn't reliable even today, his fingerprints not being recognised at the airport, if I play guitar for days on end my phone won't turn on with fingerprint recognition let alone a bass when you're fretting with right hand, and for him looking at the fretboard more they are comparing basic rock n roll songs with clips from wings with complex bass lines, and why would John Lennon write a song in 1972 called how do you sleep saying the only thing you done was yesterday referring to his song, which was written in 1965 by Paul, did he write it to annoy someone who is supposed to be dead,

John gamage on 2018-08-02 11:51:50 +0000

Whoever took over knew how to write songs with bite in them and not those poppy paulies although he can do those as well. And was as musically adept as the Original or better. PMac and Wings, PMac and MJ, PMac on his own has done and continues to make some very tasty music. Billy and the Rest are the best.

Dr. Winston on 2018-08-21 15:54:39 +0000

It's funny how far they go to convince you he didn't die...why would anyone have to try this hard if the facts were that easy to prove....ppl that lie to themselves are the worst kind

Spencer on 2018-08-27 07:42:43 +0000

All the publicity and speculation has done exactly what it was intended to do and put them all continuously in the pubic eye and under public scrutiny.... win win win

Chris Byrd on 2018-09-08 16:10:07 +0000

The main physical proof is the scar on his upper lip from the December 1965 Moped accident. Everything else falls into place. How could they find a musician that looks,sounds just like him & be accepted by the other 3,his family & girlfriend Jane Asher? Also named his 1st biological daughter Mary after his departed Mother? That's something an "imposter" would not do. Also too many stories. Billy Shears ,William Wallace Campbell or Billy Shepherd ?? Also the picture on the White Album that shows him with glasses (passport picture of imposter) would mean Sir Paul/Faul used/uses contacts most of the time. What about there is not 1 picture of him using glasses occasionally? He was and still is 5'11" hazel eyes. Has not changed. Also as mentioned in other comments,plastic surgery at that time was green. Imagine why we never saw the bruises etc.

David Glazer on 2018-09-09 18:07:08 +0000

There is no such thing as coincidence. "Suddenly I was half the man I used to be, theres a shadow hanging over me, oh I believe in yesterday" the clues are there. What IF faul was knighted for his lifelong dedication to the lie? What IF the "british invasion" was about more than music? And last, IF you were any of the other Beatles members would you have possibly nosedived your career by going public with the truth??